Miles Davis - 1978-03-02 - New York City, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Miles Davis 
Columbia Studio B, New York NY 

Lineage
CDR of "Comeback Sessions" Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 boot -> wav -> editing in Goldwave -> flac 8 

Miles Davis (org); 
Larry Coryell (g); 
Masabumi Kikuchi (keyb); 
George Pavlis (keyb); 
T.M. Stevens (el-b); 
Al Foster (d) 

01 - 5:10 rehearsal (0:45) take 1 (4:10) Studio chatter (0:13) 
02 - 3:59 take 2 (fs) (0:42) rehearsal (0:12) take 3 (fs) (0:08) take 4 (2:48) 
03 - 4:05 rehearsal (0:31) rehearsal + chatter (0:58) take 5 (2:29) rehearsal/chatter (0:11) 
04 - 2:09 take 6 (2:02) Studio chatter (0:06) 
05 - 2:54 take 7 (2:40) Studio chatter (0:14) 
06 - 3:45 take 8 (3:40) 
07 - 4:35 Studio chatter (0:19) take 9 (4:14) 
08 - 7:49 take 10 (fs) (0:03) take 11 (7:09) Studio Chatter (0:29) 

Notes:
Davis was coaxed into the studio by Larry and Julie Coryell, to whom he had been introduced by his friend Eleana Steinberg. Steinberg's attentions were apparently helping to get Davis off cocaine and alcohol, and he began composing again. These items, on which Davis plays only organ, are just riffs, with the standard flashy excesses of late-1970s fusion. Apparently Davis and/or Steinberg suggested as the title for this tune "Amanaura," but it was copyrighted as "Miss Last Summer." (See the interviews with keyboard player George Pavlis and Eleana Steiberg on George Cole's The Last Miles website.) Davis was very happy with this music, and he wanted Coryell, whom he called "Notes Anonymous" on account of his tendency to play too many notes, to join a band. Coryell wisely declined. Davis was in no condition to play in a band, much less lead one. It would be more than two years before he returned to regular touring.